I meant, if whenever she queries the clock for the time, Dumbledore will have arrived already, then there was no need for him to enchant the clock further to respond to the query—he could just answer it himself, since he’s already there.
That may fall under the don’t-mess-with-time injunction. Easier to just be silent and let the clock do its job.
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I meant, if whenever she queries the clock for the time, Dumbledore will have arrived already, then there was no need for him to enchant the clock further to respond to the query—he could just answer it himself, since he’s already there.
That may fall under the don’t-mess-with-time injunction. Easier to just be silent and let the clock do its job.